Now, your first question is likely: “Has Jaden Smith seen any movies other than Twilight and Age of Adaline?” We hope, dear reader. We don’t know for sure, and perhaps never will, but we do know that he has appeared in other movies, like After Earth, The Karate Kid remake, and The Pursuit of Happyness. Twitter responses to Smith’s take on cinema ranged from, “You have shit taste my man” to “please start a podcast where you talk about movies. i will pay for it all.”

Unfortunately, the 17-year-old did not offer any more insight into why he considers that film, which stars Lively as a 107-year-old woman, worthy of the lofty title. Not to say that we also did not like the movie. V.F.’s film critic Richard Lawsondeemed it “an elegant hodgepodge of tones and tropes, sometimes heavy-handed, sometimes silly, but always admirably sure of purpose.” And Vanity Fair’s Josh Duboff, resident expert on all things Blake Lively, attended the premiere to bask in her presence.

But is Smith really willing to go to bat for a film that contains this scene, of Lively playing Ellen Burstyn’s mother, over, say, Citizen Kane, Gone with the Wind, or anything that scored above 54 percent on Rotten Tomatoes?

We can only hope that Smith does so in the collection of essays he is writing, according to Us Weekly. The magazine reported last week that the collection will also reimagine string theory and chaos theory, and that the actor-musician aspires to have “a spiritual following.” Explained their source, “Jaden thinks he has spiritual ties to people in other dimensions and galaxies, and they are helping him write.”